The 2014 Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase at Long Beach was a sports car race held on the Long Beach Street Circuit in California, United States, on 11–12 April 2014 as part of the Long Beach Grand Prix event weekend. The race was the third round of the inaugural Tudor United SportsCar Championship season and held exclusively for the Prototype and GT Le Mans categories, the first such event in the history of the series to not feature all four classes. Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas followed their 2014 12 Hours of Sebring victory with a win at Long Beach, and giving Chip Ganassi Racing their second victory in the history of the sports car event. Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing's Chevrolet Corvette DPs completed the race podium. Jan Magnussen and Antonio García earned Corvette Racing their first GTLM category win of the season, as well as the first win for the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.

There were two practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, one on Friday morning and one on Friday afternoon. The first session lasted two hours on Friday morning while the second session on Friday afternoon lasted 30 minutes.^[9]

Pruett in the No. 01 CGR Riley DP took his first pole position of the season with a lap of 1 minute, 15.325 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Negri whose best lap in the No. 60 MSR car was 0.041 seconds slower.^[14] Christian Fittipaldi qualified the No. 5 AER Corvette DP in third.^[15] Olivier Pla's No. 42 OAK Racing Morgan was the highest placed of all the LMP2 entrants in fourth position.^[14] The No. 10 Corvette DP of Ricky Taylor started from fifth place.^[14]

In GTLM, Magnussen took his pole position of the season with a lap of 1 minute and 17.939 seconds.^[16] He was joined by Bill Auberlen's No. 55 BMW Z4 on the grid's front row with his best lap being 0.152 seconds slower, and Dirk Müller drove the No. 56 BMW to third place.^[17] Milner qualified the No. 4 Corvette in fourth position.^[17] The two Porsches were fifth and sixth (the No. 911 car driven by Tandy in front of the No. 912 vehicle of Christensen).^[17]

Qualifying results

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡.

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Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	P	01	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Scott Pruett	1:15.325	_	1‡
2	P	60	Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian	Oswaldo Negri Jr.	1:15.366	+0.041	2
3	P	5	Action Express Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:15.571	+0.246	3
4	P	42	OAK Racing	Olivier Pla	1:15.668	+0.343	4
5	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:15.743	+0.418	5
6	P	90	Spirit of Daytona Racing	Michael Valiante	1:15.952	+0.627	6
7	P	2	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek	1:17.129	+1.804	7
8	P	1	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ryan Dalziel	1:17.833	+2.508	8
9	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Jan Magnussen	1:17.939	+2.614	9‡
10	GTLM	55	BMW Team RLL	Bill Auberlen	1:18.091	+2.766	10
11	GTLM	56	BMW Team RLL	Dirk Müller	1:18.246	+2.921	11
12	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Tommy Milner	1:18.489	+3.164	12
13	P	31	Marsh Racing	Boris Said	1:18.549	+3.224	16
14	GTLM	911	Porsche North America	Nick Tandy	1:18.574	+3.249	17
15	GTLM	912	Porsche North America	Michael Christensen	1:18.675	+3.350	13
16	GTLM	62	Risi Competizione	Giancarlo Fisichella	1:19.037	+3.712	14
17	GTLM	91	SRT Motorsports	Dominik Farnbacher	1:19.223	+3.898	15
18	GTLM	17	Team Falken Tire	Bryan Sellers	1:19.270	+3.945	18
19	GTLM	93	SRT Motorsports	Jonathan Bomarito	1:19.980	+4.655	19
20	P	07	Speedsource	Tristan Nunez	1:25.331	+10.006	20
21	P	70	Speedsource	None	No Time Established		21
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